Internet Download Manager

Internet Download Manager (IDM) enables you to accelerate downloads (up to 5 times, according to the vendor), schedule downloads, recover and resume broken downloads. The program features a download accelerator, dynamic file segmentation, and multipart downloading technology. It reuses available connections without additional connect and login stages to improve download performance. Error recovery and resume capability will restart broken or interrupted downloads due to lost connections, network problems, computer shutdowns, or unexpected power outages. Internet Download Manager can connect to the Internet at a set time, download the files you want, then disconnect or even shut down your computer when it's done.

Internet Download Manager supports firewalls, proxy and mirror servers, FTP, HTTP and HTTPS protocols, redirects, cookies, download queues, directories with authorization, MP3 audio and MPEG video content processing, and a number of different server platforms. IDM integrates into browsers automatically (IE, FireFox, Opera, etc.). It can also be integrated into any other Internet applications that use FTP, or HTTP protocols.

The latest version adds YouTube grabber, which can be used to download FLV videos from YouTube, Google Video, MySpaceTV etc. It also has Download Panel for IE, player when IDM detects multimedia request, MMS protocol support, speed limiter, and the site grabber feature. Grabber lets you download, for example all audio files from a Web site and subsets of Web sites, or complete Web sites for offline browsing.

The latest version also adds compatibility with Windows Vista, a completely changed IDM scheduler, support for the periodic synchronization of files, the possibility to create new queues for downloading or synchronization, and new features on starting and stopping queue processing.